This is an analysis of the poem What The Dog Perhaps Hears that begins with:
If an inaudible whistle
blown between our lips...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.
- Rhyme scheme: abbbcdcefgXXbXdXeegXh hagXhXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010010 10111 111101 110001 0101010 111001 010010010 110001 10111 0111010 1110101 010001001 0101001 110001 101011 0101101 11101 0101010 10010101 1111100010 111101 100111 0101110 01101 1111111 010101001 01100101 111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of What The Dog Perhaps Hears;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
Pay attention: the program cannot take into account all the numerous nuances of poetic technique while analyzing. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.